Ukraine 'in a terrible situation' as Vladimir Putin's plan 'working'
People in Ukraine may now feel the US no longer stands with them, an expert said.
Ukraine is "in a terrible" situation as support for the country shows signs of wavering, an expert has claimed.
Since Russia's invasion of the country in 2022, Kyiv's forces have relied heavily on Western support, especially from the US.
But now, many Republican Party legislators are trying to thwart the US from providing further support to Ukraine.
Jacob Kirkegaard, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Brussels, told the Financial Times that this could help Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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He said: “Ukraine is no longer special. It is no longer regarded as this issue of national security, of paramount importance for the EU, Nato, or the United States. Because if that was the case, people wouldn’t be playing politics with it.
“It is a devaluation of the Ukrainian war effort. There is no other way to put it, in my opinion. And that, for Ukraine, is a terrible situation.
"If you’re Vladimir Putin, you’re saying, well, my strategic decision to try to hold on longer than the west is working.
“This is crunch time ... an unfortunate aligning of the fiscal stars.
“All the times that Western policymakers have come to Kyiv and said, ‘We stand with you for as long as it takes’ — I mean, it all sounds kind of hollow right now, right?”
Max Bergmann, director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the same news outlet: “Normally, American foreign policy and funding to advance and support America’s foreign policy interests have been separated from domestic political and policy fights. But not in this case.
“We’ve gone to the bare bones of what we can provide . . . there’s no money."
This week, Republicans succeeded in blocking President Biden from passing through more support for Ukraine, demanding measures to deal with immigration coming into the US from Mexico be a part of the deal.
Reacting to this, President Biden said: “They’re willing to literally kneecap Ukraine on the battlefield and damage our national security in the process."
Senator James Lankford, a lead Republican figure, said: “Everyone has been very, very clear on this to say we’re standing firm. Now is the moment.
“We’re completely out of control at the southern border, and it’s time to resolve this.”
